September 2016

Welcome to the visual diary for September, highlighting daily life in and around Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales

As September commences, Célestine starts school; the newborn bébé is suddenly three years old! Days are hot and the Mediterranean waters warm, many visitors have departed and daily life is still festive — the event calendar filled with invitations. One of the advantages of our climate is the sense of freedom from wearing light layers — as yet, a gilet or jacket is unnecessary for evenings, as we live outdoors. Yet each day, the sun sets a little earlier and the first leaves fall, summer produce ripens and we move towards an autumn menu. It is a lovely time of year…

Enjoying the coast

Delicious seasonal fare

From the potters market

Cooling off in the lake

Célestine’s pizza

Spectacular clouds

Morning on the terrace

Canigou attracting clouds

Sunset…

Above Canigou

Colours deepen

Ensuring balance… spending as much time in nature as we can to shake off the confines of a classroom…

Thursday 15th September. As the heatwave has continued we have enjoyed balmy evenings and frequented swimming pools, the lake and beach… so it is with a jolt we now have to adjust to a new ‘normal’… waking to 13 degrees and climbing to 25… jeans and jackets are suddenly out.